Board Oks Congregate Living Site

November 17, 1987|By SANDRA JACOBS, Staff Writer

DELRAY BEACH -- At least 200 beds may be available in a proposed adult congregate living facility within one year if the City Commission follows the planning and zoning board and approves the development.

``We would like to help this project as much as we can,`` said Vice Chairman Phyllis Plume before board members voted 5-0 for the project on Monday.

City commissioners are expected to consider the issue Nov. 24, when they conduct a public hearing on annexation and zoning of the county-owned site.

The proposed 18-building development would cover 5.13 acres east of the county mental health facility on Military Trail, south of Linton Boulevard.

City Planning Director David Kovacs said a city technical review board has recommended that the plan be rejected because of inadequate access for large fire vehicles.

George Canty, representing the operators of the proposed development, said land needed to build the necessary roads is part of a rural tract to the north and Blood`s Groves to the east.

A temporary road to Military Trail will be adequate for the development`s first phase, board members voted.

Cantry said the project, named ``Linton Manor,`` is designed for people who are at least 80 years old and are active but do not drive. The ``personal-care facility`` would offer assistance with daily tasks but would not provide nursing care.

Rates would be $800 monthly for each person in a double room and $1,250 monthly for a single room.

If approved by the City Commission, construction will begin in April and 154 units for 200 people are expected to be ready for occupancy in October 1988, Canty said.

A second phase would include places for another 138 residents.

Board member Charles Hart did not attend Monday`s meeting, and Chairman Bob Currie did not vote because of a conflict of interest.

Currie, a local architect who was elected board chairman last month, disqualified himself from six of the 13 items on Monday`s agenda.

In other action on Monday, board members sided with residents who live near the planned Waterford Village project and told developers that they may not divert from plans that call for a wall separating the new project from residents.

Waterford Village, formerly called Delint, will include about 25 acres for rental apartments and recreational facilities alongside an office complex at the southeast corner of Linton Boulevard and Interstate 95.